Whoa...much confusion here. Yes, see QST Feb 2005 p. 83.
1. It was not an ARRL initiative. It was a petition filed with the FCC by 3 hams who are not ARRL officers and who have no ARRL affiliation that I know of.
2. The FCC denied the petition saying that its current rules were adequate.
3. The FCC's response specifically stated that "the petitioners failed to show that there is 'a particular problem' with stations using AM."
This was an FCC action on a petition not initiated by the ARRL, but simply reported in the pages of QST.
As far as I can tell, the ARRL supports the use of AM to the extent that you would expect for that tiny niche of their members who care about AM. Correctly, the ARRL recognizes that AM is not the issue. The issue is whether Powell's FCC will sell the bands out from underneath us to the highest bidder. For some hams, this sellout has already happened in the form of BPL. For the rest of us, AM or other, the wolf is at the door. And the ARRL is the only voice we have.
73, Don Merz, N3RHT
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From: amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of P Cour
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:11 PM
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [AMRadio] ARRL's Threatened Bandwidth Petition - action taken?
I understand the February issue of QST briefly
mentions that the League has scuttled the idea of
petitioning the FCC to segregate our modes and
activities by bandwidth.
If this group has indeed abandoned the idea, it will
have been the result of public protest against such a
scheme, which the League had aired as a draft proposal
to elicit comment.
As far as I know, the group in Newington has never
revealed the specific comments submitted to its
volunteeer administrators and/or paid staff. Nor has
the group even offered a tally of pro and con
sentiment.
Anyone on here already have the issue to
affirm/dispute word the ARRL may have seen the light?
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